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The Railway Children

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Author(s):E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):Unknown
Publisher(s): Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd.
Year Published: 1906
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Boys Growing Up
British
Families
Fiction - novel
Girls Growing Up
Trains
Age Range: Ages 7-9: Short Chapter Books
Pages: 309
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
OCLC: 156741758

Description

When their father is taken away by strangers, the lives of three children are altered forever. They move with their mother to a cottage by a railway. The railway becomes their playground, and they befriend the rail workers and passengers who eventually help to reunite them with their father. Read online at archive.org.

Other Editions

The Railway Children (1957)

When their father is taken away by strangers, the lives of three children are altered forever. They move with their mother to a cottage by a railway. The railway becomes their playground, and they befriend the rail workers and passengers who eventually help to reunite them with their father.

Publisher: Ernest Benn Limited
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The Railway Children (1989)

When their father is taken away by strangers, the lives of three children are altered forever. They move with their mother to a cottage by a railway. The railway becomes their playground, and they befriend the rail workers and passengers who eventually help to reunite them with their father.

Publisher: Philomel Books
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The Railway Children (1994)

When their father is taken away by strangers, the lives of three children are altered forever. They move with their mother to a cottage by a railway. The railway becomes their playground, and they befriend the rail workers and passengers who eventually help to reunite them with their father.

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
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The Railway Children (1999)

When their father is taken away by strangers, the lives of three children are altered forever. They move with their mother to a cottage by a railway. The railway becomes their playground, and they befriend the rail workers and passengers who eventually help to reunite them with their father.

Publisher: The Folio Society
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The Railway Children (2005)

When their father is taken away by strangers, the lives of three children are altered forever. They move with their mother to a cottage by a railway. The railway becomes their playground, and they befriend the rail workers and passengers who eventually help to reunite them with their father.

Publisher: Sea Star Books
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